Good Warning

by The Merry Warners

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released 06 May 2008
The Merry Warners - Good Warning

Cory Lee - Vocals, Acoustic Gtr
Catherine Bermingham - Vocals
Sean Golson - Lead Guitar
Jonathan Pickett- Bass
Joe Drebit - Drums

All Words and Music by The Merry Warners
All Tracks Recorded and Mixed at Warped Wave Studios in Mississauga, On
Parts of Deity Recorded at MetalWorks Studios
All Tracks Mastered by Scott Lake at MetalWorks Studios
Produced by Jonathan Pickett
Assistant Tracking Engineers: Justin Gilfoil, Anndy Burniston
Additional Percussion on Elimination Pt. II: Mat Keller
Album Artwork by Ben Harper

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Track Name: Elimination
Looking out the window
Staring sullen at the broken pavement
Life is slowly fading
I’m alone

And that moment when you spoke semantics
Did the usual song and dance tricks
How could I be saying please don’t go?

(You used to say it will all work out
Don’t fear these exaggerations
Unchanging as the waters rose
And levees shook in anticipation)

It’s so cold (And now it’s working itself out)
And unholy (In every corner of every nation)
The stars above me fade(The order has broken down)
Hold the child deep inside me, (And there is no more affiliation)
I can’t seem to change

Were you lost or misguided (You stumble into the fields)
Were you simply never whole? (The desert sun and the desolation)
Did you know change was coming (To the highways of twisted steel)
Did you fear you’d lose control (The graveyard of automation)

And I know there’s no coming back (And instinct is coming back)
In this situation (In savage bursts of intoxication)
And I must wake alone (Your eyes frightened wide)
At the dawn of elimination (Face to face with elimination)
Track Name: Lost
Summer trees ease my pain
Feed the earth and make it rain
Summer leaves ease my pain
Bend my mind and make me sane

See our time here is getting shorter
When tyranny is law, revolution is order
See the darkness in every corner
When tyranny is law, revolution is order

Summer trees ease my pain
Feed the earth and make it rain
Summer leaves ease my pain
Bend my mind and make me sane

The morning star shines now as it shone then
From Wall Street to Jerusalem
The wicked creature walks among men
Into the forest, start again
Track Name: American Idle
Hooray, you won first prize on the show!
And I heard your song on the radio
Get ready for a life of booze and blow
You’re branded, worthless, empty, you know?

Hey kids look at me
I’m your new queen
The pretty face
On your magazines
I think I need a hit
Let’s go buy some shit
Cuz if you don’t represent
You might as well quit

Wake up! Cheer up! You’re all skin and bones
You’re sick and pretty, sitting on your plastic throne
You’re safe from all the things you’ll never know
You’re ignorant, blissful, blissful and alone

I’m falling apart
And I’m only eighteen
I can be a dirty girl
If you don’t like me clean
I need to change my face
Just to stay in first place
Cuz these synthetic girls
Are crushing my space

One, two, three, four…
Oh my little one
You slept with every one
But soon your little run
Will set like the sun
Track Name: Money Changes Everything
There was a time when people in need
Built churches where they could grieve
Goodwill flowed free
And death came naturally

But money changes everything
To make it, you’d do anything
Until money is everything
And nothing can ever be the same

There was a time plagued by disease
Humanity was on its knees
And men of academic mind
Searched for the cure for all mankind

But money changes everything
To make it, you’d do anything
Until money is everything
And nothing will ever be the same

There was a time when you looked into my eyes
There were happy days and sad goodbyes
There was a shelter, a place where we could hide
I knew you’d always be by my side

But money changes everything
To make it, you’d do anything
Until money is everything
And nothing will ever be the same

But money changes everything
And greed keeps taking
And we with hope are aching
That our love is not forsaken
Track Name: ¡Marijuana!
William Randolph Hearst staked his claim
Pulp and paper were his game
He had the media in his claws
And the currency to make law

The puppet of the ruling class
Harry Anslinger hated grass
He gave the weed a foreign name
From the loathsome Mexican slang

Marihuana

In the segregated American night
A beast was conceived in black and white
The plant overnight grew its horns
Prohibition, and the sleeping world signed off

Marijuana

And, so it was
And, so it is

The world is an oil fire
It’s the blackness that fuels our desire
We’re locked into madness and they’ve palmed the key
Overgrow the darkness, let free be free

Marijuana
Track Name: GenocideSubterfugeKarma
Hey without you the sky wasn’t blue
In the morning the sun didn’t shine
I couldn’t hear the birds sing
I was afraid to open my eyes

But now I feel nothing
Through my disguise
Like some kind of automatic being
Seeing the world through chemical eyes

And no no, nothing has ever made me so high
Hey Hey GSK
I’d like to thank all of you at GlaxoSmithKline
How many people did you kill today?
I’m hanging onto the floor, now I’m stripped to the core, can’t you see I need more? Hey GSK
I’m hooked on your pills and my body is ill, there’s so many things in me that you’ve killed
How many people did you kill today?
Track Name: Sara
I dropped my head and looked away
When I saw the picture
In the news today
Of a girl I knew a long time ago

We were friends, free and young
We didn’t wait for anyone
Nothing
Could ever bring us down

She left town, we grew apart
She met a man who broke her heart
And I never
Saw her again

Sara

I heard she’d go out every night
Somewhere alone, waiting for his lights
To come out of the cold
Out of the dark

He never came, he didn’t care
He couldn’t see her
Dying there
Broken, not the girl I knew

Today I read, she died alone
Half a mile from her home
No one knew why
No one knew her name

Sara
Track Name: The Bend
I’ve been waiting for you honey
I’m still waiting to fall
Living up in your castle baby
So very tall
I dreamed all through the night
I was climbing the walls
Just trying to get to you
I was climbing the walls
I was just trying to get to you baby
Just climbing the walls.

Do you love me?
Do you love me at all?
The dark water is rising baby
And I’m stuck in the hall
I’ll wash out with the tide tonight
I’ll go over the falls
And you will see the waves baby
Crashing against your walls
I’ll wash out with the tide tonight baby
Crashing against your walls
Track Name: Fair Trade
You bring the guns, we’ll bring the seed
You bring the guns, we’ll bring the seed
Lie in the sun and we’ll bleed
You bring the guns, we’ll bring the weed

The ocean is tearing at your shore
Ocean is tearing at your shore
Cities are sinking but you still want more
And the oceans are tearing at your door

Smoke from the war you tried to hide
The smoke from the war you tried to hide
Appeared like a serpent in the evening sky
Smoke from the war you tried…

Backed into a corner
You’re gonna squeeze us
But you don’t need a friend, you need a saviour
Maybe Jesus

The oil in our sands has caught your eye
Oil our sands has caught your eye
But sometimes it’s best just to say goodbye
Sometimes it’s best just to say goodbye
Track Name: Deity
I saw you standing
Frozen there
Folding your hands
You looked so scared

And while you were waiting
For his hand
The water was rising
Over the land

The shelter is broken
The walls are cracked
And I know you love him
But he’s not coming back

They always told me you loved me
But you don’t, you don’t care
I always thought that you’d lead me
But you were never there
They always said that you loved me
Were they lies? Were they lies? Were they lies?
And I needed you, I needed you, I needed you oh…
I needed you, I needed you, I needed you
But you were never there
Were they lies?
Track Name: Elimination Part II
The magnates have issued the call, rolled the dice
Made the estimation
That fear will excuse the dead
And we’ll suffer their proclamation

War against the earth, against our birth
A dose of colonization
The king on his throne
Hurling stones at civilization

And the wretched of the world, bow their heads
And man their stations
Obedient until the end
The sudden embrace of elimination